“- Bass: What amused me just then was your concern for my wellbeing in this heat when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers...
- Edwin Epps: The condition of my laborers?
- Bass: It is horrid.
- Edwin Epps: They ain't hired help. They're my property.”
Brad Pitt - Bass
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“- Vladimir Ivanoff: I read about slavery.
- Lionel Witherspoon: Yeah, with slavery at least the work was steady.
- Vladimir Ivanoff: Sounds like Russia.”
Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff
Cleavant Derricks - Lionel Witherspoon

“I think it's romantic to work for free, it's like a Cinderella situation!”
Jessica Coles - Arielle

“We were engineered as slave laborers. It was our only means of pleasure allowed! The harder you worked the more you got, the more you got the harder you worked. Thousands of my people died, I lost my best friend. It is a nightmare! I will not let it happen again.”

Mandy Patinkin - Sam Francisco

Last January, I finally singed Martin Whistler out on one of the rim planets. Since then, I've been hunting down the last of his murdering cult. We call them "Trancers" slaves to Whistler's psychic power. Not really alive, not dead enough. It's July now, and I'm tired. Real tired.
Tim Thomerson - Jack Deth